It is easy to fail to utilize it. the artists are preoccupied trying to recapture it after the first bloom has escaped them and only occasionally do the educators demonstrate that each child lives not only in an actual environment visible to all. but In enchanted surroundings which may be reproduced by the child himself." She saw the value of each national and racial culture as a very real contribution to American society into which each was assimilating. and she saw this growing American culture as the product of all of them. But more than that she recognized the value to each individual and family of preserving and taking pride in the music and art of the old country. She watched older immigrants gain new selfrespect when given the opportunity to pursue crafts they had learned as young people and which had since been shunted aside in the growing industrialism of the New World. It was to foster the art instinct of these immigrants that the Hull House Labor Museum was started. and it was a delight to Miss Addams. Here one found a Russian woman spinning. an Irish woman carding. Syrians making rugs. a German potters wheel. a bindery. a basketry. and the din of cabinetmaking or metalwork. And she watched the young people. children and grandchildren of the immigrants. take a fresh look at the old folks. "It has made Americanized children look upon the Old World accomplishments of their parents with something better than eyes of scorn." she writes. The very first large gift of funds to Hull House was used for the erection and maintenance of an art gallery. and it was a matter of great pride to Jane Addams that "the first brickandmortar expansion of Hull House should be in the field of pure esthetics." She saw the awakening of pride in the young people. and the surge to go forward. beginning where their parents had left off. There immediately began clubs and classes for children in the studio.
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